Lately I’ve been enthralled with the idea that the small things we do today can have big consequences later. Sporadically I listen to Elizabeth Gilbert’s podcast “Magic Lessons.” In one of the episodes, she speaks with a woman of Irish descent about the importance of stories and how they’re not frivolous at all.
Time is flying! Have you noticed how our perception of time is somewhat weird at the moment? Suddenly, you wake up and it feels like you’ve lost three days or even an entire month? On the other hand there are things in our life that just don’t want to unravel how we would like them to and nothing seems to move forward…. Weird...but no worries, things are moving forward in an extremely fast pace, it’s just that our perception can’t keep up with it!
Life is continuously unfolding before us. Many of us try very hard to direct the course of life’s trajectory, which is not necessarily a bad thing. However, no matter how much we try to control, direct and predict where life will take us we can never fully know the future. In fact, the only thing we can count on is that life will definitely present us with unexpected twists and turns; why not learn to embrace the unexpected changes and find comfort in the unknowable future?
Vision boards were big in 2009 - partly due to Tyra Banks’ adoration of the idea, and partly due to lingering effects of “The Secret,” the idea to put your hopes and dreams into the universe was big business. Regardless of your own ideas about positive thought, it’s certainly better than being a pessimist. Creating a visual representation of your goals is a fun way to help you visualize success and can still be a great practice today.